Typographical machine.



N. DODGE.

TYPOGRAPHIOALWMAQHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2. 1913.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

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APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1913.I

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.-

N. DODGE.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2,1913.

Patented J an. 5, 1915.

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N. DODGE.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1913.

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N. DODGE.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1913.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

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oration NORMAN DODGE, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGBIOR TO IVIERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Jan.5, m5.

Application filed September 2, 1913. Serial No. 787,626.

To all whom zit-may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN Donor, a citizen'of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typographical chines, of which the following is a specificavtion, reference being had therein to the acand spacers thereafter returned through dis tributing mechanisms to the magazlnes from which they started.

More particularly, it relates to machines of this kind equipped with means for delivering the matrices and spacers respectively to the assembling point in different periods of time, and is specifically intended to effect the proper corresponding delivery of matrices and spacers, so as .to avoid transpositions and the like.

In Letters-Patent of the United States to Holbourns and Longhurst, No. 951,948, March 15, 1910, double or J anus-faced matrices are illustrated, and in connection therewith means whereby they may be reversed, in their passage to the assembler, so as to present one set or another of their charactors in operative po sition, as may be desired. The specific reversing means are in the form of an adjustable throat, provided with two passages, one of them straight to permit the matrices to pass 'dlrectly therethroughin the ordinary manner and unreversed, and the other grooved or rifled so as to reverse the matrices edge for edge and bring the opposite set of characters into operative p siti n. Obviously, the reversal of a matrix during its delivery requires a longer period of time than the mere passage of an unreversed matrix, and accordingly I have provided means to retard or hasten the delivery of the spacers correspondingly, in order to secure their proper cooperationand minimize the .liability to transpositions, etc.

The means for controlling the period of delivery of the spacers may be embodied in widely different forms, and I have illustrated two such embodiments in the present instance. In one case I store the spacers in separate magazines located at different distances from the assembling point, and provide means for controlling their respective escapements, whereby one or another is brought into action as the requirements demand. In the other case, I employ a single magazine, and a plurality of sets of dili'erently timed escapement actuating devices, and corresponding controlling means to render one or another set operative, as may be necessary.

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown my invention in preferred form and by way of example, and as applied to the style of machine already described. However, many changes and variations'ma-y be made therein, and in its mode of application, which Will still be comprised within its spirit. For instance, the improvements may be similarly adapted to other forms of typographicalmachines, which handle type or dies instead of matrices, or they may be applied in various ways to other forms of esoapements, which control any l zind of line elements, such as matrices, types and dies, as well as spacers. Generally speaking, "I desire it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any specific form or embodiment, except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a partial front elevation of a linotype machine, partlybrolzen away, having my invention applied thereto in one form; Fig. 2 is a detached front view on an enlarged scale, partly in section, of the specific im-' provements; Fig. 3 is a somewhat similar view, showing parts in different position; Fig. 4 is a detached perspective of the spacer 'escapoments. their actuating means, the conof Fig. 2; Fig. 6 shows the different forms of spacers employed; Fig. 7 illustrates a Janus-faced matrix; and Fig. 8jis a detached perspective, illustrating another embodiment of my invention. p

The matrices X (Fig.7) are formed with characters X and X in their opposite edges, so that by reversing them either set may be brought into operative POSItlOII.

, sisting of two passages, one direct and the other rifled, as best indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2. The connected handle H permits the throat H to be shifted so as to bring either passage into operation, as will be familiar to those. skilled in the art.

The specific form of the devices so far described in itself constitutes no part of my invention, and may be substantially the same inconstruction and mode of operation as that disclosed in the previously men tioned patent to Holbourns and Longhurst. In view of the fact that the period of dellve'ry of-a reversed matrix is somewhat greater than that of an unreversed matrix, my improvements contemplate a corresponding difference in the periods of de livery of the spacers designed to cooperate therewith, and mechanism for this purpose may be embodied in a variety of dilferent .Ways, my preferred form being illustrated in Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, and involving the employment of vdifierently constructed spacers stored in magazines located at different distances from the assembling point.

In Fig. 6, I have shown two kinds of spacers Y and Y substantially the same in construction, except that the sustaining ears 'Y of the former are shorter than the ears Y of the latter, the diflerent extent of these ears being availed of for distribution in the manner subsequently to be described. The

spacers Y are stored in the magazine C,

mounted in substantially the ordinary position above the assembler A, and so that when released therefrom they pass directly into the line and in front of the star-wheel B; The spacers Y are stored in the magazine 0 located immediately above the magazine C, and so thatspacers released from either magazine pass directly downward and through the common chute C to the assemblingpoint. It will be apparent, due to the different distances traversed, that a spacer Y from the nearer magazine 0 will be delivered into the line in a briefer period than a spacer Y from-the farther magazine C3. Accordingly I arrange for the employment of the spacers Y in connection with the speedier unreversed matrices, and of the spacers Y in connection with the slower reversed matrices, and preferably I effect the shifting from one spacer magazine to another by connections from the reversing throat H. The escapement devices of the two spacer magazines are of the ordinary form' and may be described together. Each consists of a pair of vertically reciprocable pawls F connected to the pivoted rocker frame F which latter is shifted first in a downward direction to engage the pawls F under the ears of the outermost spacer in the magazine, and next rises and releases the spacer, which then drops through the chute to the assembler. In the present instance, I provide means which would actuate both rocker frames F simultaneously, were it not for the locking mechanism hereafter set forth. The actuating devices (see Fig. 2) are controlled by the ordinary spacerkey or bar D, the manipulation of which permits the constantly rotated roll D to engage the cam D connected to the reed D and escapement lever E, all in the ordinary manner. The inner end of the lever E is formed in two branches E and E designed to engage loosely beneath the projecting portions F of the respective rocker frames F of the magazines C and C The first effect of the engagement of the cam D with the roll D is to elevate the reed D and thus to lower the inner end of the lever E, after which the return movement of the reed elevates the inner end of the lever E, that is to say, the escapements of both magazines would be completely actuated thereby,

are so'arrangedand designed, that when the throat is in position to permit a matrix to pass directly and unreversed intothe line, the escapement of the magazine C will be locked against action, and spacers Y from the lower magazine C will be delivered and when the throat is adjusted to reverse the matrices, the escapement of the magazine 0 .will be locked and 's acers Y from the magazine C will be de i-vered. Fig. 2 shows the rifiedfpassage of the throat in position to reverse the matrices and the escapement of the lower magazine C as locked, and Fig. 3 illustrates the partial operation of the upper escapement in such circumstances,

\ aware? namely, after its first downward movement due to the descent of the inner end of the lever E. It will be understood that the operation of the escapement of the magazine C will be permitted in asimilar manner, when the throat II is adjusted to its other position, and thereby the escapement of the magazine C is held against action.

After the line has been cast and the matrices are lifted to their distributing mechanism, the spacers Y and Y are'returned laterally to their place of storage in the usual way, as disclosed for instance in the Mergenthaler patent previously mentioned. Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 5, during this lateral movement they are supported by their sustaining ears in the grooves P, which in the present'instance lead directly to the upper magazine C Diverging from the grooves P and at a point in advance of the magazine C are downwardly inclined grooves P which lead to and communicate with the magazine C. It will be noted that the grooves P are of greater depth and extent thanthe grooves P, corresponding to and cooperating with the previously mentioned sustaining ears Y and Y of the spacers Y and Y, which are similarly of different extent. As .the spacers Yand Y move laterally, both kinds are supported by the engagement of their ears With the groove P until they reach the groove P, at which point the shorter earsY will enter and pass down the groove P, and the spacers Y will thus be restored to the magazine C, whereas the longer ears Y 'will pass over the en- ,trance to the groove P and the spacers Y will therefore be restored to the magazine C In Fig. 8 I have shown a modified form of construction. In this instance a single spaer magazine is employed, and I rely upon differently timed escapement actuat ing devices to alter the delivery periods of the spacers, these devices being connected to and under the selecting control of the reversing throat. is actuated by the lever and reed D pivotally connected thereto at the point D. The lower end of the reed D" is controlled by the link or slide H connected to the reversing throat, in such manner that its position depends upon whether the rifled or plain passa e is in operation. Immediate-1y beneath t 1e reed D" are mounted two vertically; reciprocable bars I) and D either ofwhich is adapted to operate the reed 1)" according to the position of. the

The bar D is connected to an slide H actuatin element comprising the'cam D arrange to be rotated by the rolLD, and

the bar D to an element comprising the.

cam l) adapted to be rotated by the other roll D. The respective elements are simultaneously controlled by the single double the The s acer escapement branched connection D to the spacer key,

. mitted to the reed D", according to the positionof the slide H and a corresponding difference in the speed of delivery of a spacer is thus effected. As shown in Fig. 8, the rifled or reversing passage of the throat H is in action, and the reed D is in position to be reciprocated by the slower cam D Upon the adjustment of the throat H to bring its plain passage into action, the reed D is shifted so as to be reciprocated by the quicker cam D.

As previously stated, I have shown my invention only in preferred form and by way of example, and as adapted to a specific kind of machine, but obviously many alterations and modifications therein and in its mode of application will suggest themselves ing spacers and type or matrices adapted to be assembled in line," the combination of means for reversing the type or matrices. in their passage to the line, and means controlled automatically thereby for increasing 1 perlod of delivery of'the spacers to the 2. Ina typographical machine comprising spacers'adapted to be delivered to the line in different periods and type or mat- IICGS adaptedto be reversed in their passage to the line, means for reversing the type or matrices and automatically controlling the periods of delivery of the spacers.

3. In a typographical machine comprising spacers and reversible type or matrices, the combination of spacer delivery means,

'With means for reversing the .type or matrices. and automatically controlling the spacer delivery means.

. 4. In a typographical machine, thecom-v bination of a magazineto" contain type or matrices, two additional magazines to contain justifying spacers,.and means for rendering the spacer magazines active and in active alternately.

, 5. In a typographical machine, the combination'of a ma azine to contain type or matrieestwo additional magazines to. conbination of a magazine to contain type or matrices, two additional magazines to contain justifying spacers and each provided with an escapement, common operating devices for the.escapements of both spacer magazines, and means for locking and unlocking the escapements alternately.

8. In a typographical machine comprising reversible type or matrices, the combination of two spacer magazines arranged at different distances from the assembling point, with'means for reversing the matrices and for bringing oneor the other of the spacer magazines into action.

9. In a typographical machine comprising reversible type or matrices, the combination of two spacer magazines arranged at different distances from the assembling point and each provided with an escapement, means for reversing the type or matrices, and devices controlled thereby for governing the operation of one or the other of the said escapements.

10. In a typographical machine comprising reversible type or matrices, the combination of two spacer magazines arranged at different distances from the assembling point and each provided with an escape inent, means for reversing the type or matrices, and devices controlled thereby for locking and unlocking the said escapements alternately.

- 11. In a t pographical machine comprising reversib e type or matrices, the combination of two spacer magazines arranged one above another and each provided with an escapement, means forreversing the matrices, and devices controlled thereby for preventing the operation of one or the other of the said escapements.

12. In a typographical machine comprising type or matrices and justifying spacers, the combination of a magazine to contain the type or matrices, two additional magazines to contain the justifying spacers, and means for returning the justifying spacers to their I proper magazines.

13. In 'a typographical machine, comprising type or matrices and justifying spacers, the latter differing in form from each other, the combination of a magazine to contain the type or matrices, a plurality of magazines to contain the justifying spacers, and

means for returning the justifying spacers to one magazine or another according to their form.

14. In a typographical machine comprising ype or matrices and justifying spacers, the combination of a magazine to contain the type or matrices, two additional magazines to contain the justifying spacers, guides or ways leading to each of the spacer magazines, and'means whereby the spacers are delivered to the guides or ways of one or another of the magazines.

15. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine to contain type or matrices, two additional magazines each containing a set of justifying spacers, the two sets of justifying spacers being formed with projecting ears of different extent, and two series of guides to support the spacers by their ,ears in their return to their respective magazines, one series of verging from the other series an adapted to receive the spacers with the shorter cars.

16. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine containing type or matrices, two additional magazines each containing a set of justifying spacers, the two sets of spacers having projecting ears of different extent, and passages leading to each of the spacer magazines, one of said passages being extended from the other, whereby the spacers are caused to traverse one passage or the other according to the extent of their cars.

17. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine containing a set of type or matrices, and two additional magazines each containing a set of justifying spacers formed with projecting ears,'

the ears of one set'of spacers being of greater extent than the ears of the other set, for the purpose described.

' 18. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine containing a set of type or matrices, two additional magazines each containing a set of justifying spacers formed with projecting ears, the ears of one set of spacers being of greater extent than the ears of the other set, and means for separating the several sets of spacers by their ears to proper magazine.

19. In a typographical machine comprising spacers and reversible type or matrices, the combination of an adjustable reversing throat formed with different passages through which the type or matrices pass, and means controlled automatically by the throat for causing the delivery of the spacers in different periods ,when the throat is adjusted to bring one or another of its passages into operation.

20. In a typographical ing spacers and reversible the combination machine compristype or matrices, of two spacer magazines,

uides di'- permit their return to the an adjustable reversing throat formed with different passages through which the type or matrices pass, and means for causing the delivery of spacers from one magazine 01' another according to the adjustment of the throat.

C. W, WIMBERLY,

WALTER MOBLARD. 

